“Whatever the actual effect of anti-war songs on global politics, they have long been a staple of pop culture. As evidenced by Bob Dylan’s ‘Masters of War’, Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On?’, the Clash’s ‘Straight to Hell’ and U2’s ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, the heavyweights of rock and pop have never been slow to let us know where they stand. But, with war on Iraq now apparently imminent, where is the song to rally round the white flag?”